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Marylebone Theatre in London has announced three new Off-Broadway plays for its forthcoming autumn and winter season.

Russian director Alexander Molochnikov directs Seagull: True Story in September and October; Anna Ziegler’s award-winning new play The Wanderers is playing in October and November; and Michael McKeever’s hit Off-Broadway play Daniel’s Husband gets its UK premiere in December and January.

Coming up at Marylebone Theatre is Alice In Wonderland from 19 July to 31 August, and A Role to Die For starring Tanya Franks from 26 July to 30 August.

Seagull: True Story

Following a successful Off-Broadway run at La Mama, Seagull: True Story is coming to Marylebone Theatre from 5 September to 11 October 2025.

The play promises to be a wildly inventive, darkly comic and politically charged remix of Chekhov’s classic drama The Seagull.

Created and directed by award-winning Russian director Alexander Molochnikov, and written by Eli Rarey, Seagull: True Story is inspired by recent events in Molochnikov’s own life.

Molochnikov left Russia in 2022 after speaking out against Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. He cannot return home.

When Russia’s invasion of Ukraine casts a shadow of censorship over Kon’s free-spirited reimagining of Chekhov’s The Seagull, the production is stripped down to a state-approved shell of its former self. Desperate to save his vision and his livelihood, Kon flees to New York. Torn between his Russian roots and a confounding American paradise, he tries to redefine himself as an artist, only to discover that regaining true freedom takes more than just a few thousand miles…

This bold and playful theatrical experience is packed full of comedic mayhem, using song, multimedia, absurdist humour and layered metatheatre to explore the fragility of art, identity and freedom under authoritarian regimes.

Molochnikov leads the cast, with further casting to be announced.

The creative team also includes set design by Alexander Shishkin, costume design by Kristina Kharlashkina, lighting design by Brian H. Scott and Sam Saliba, composer Fedor Zhuravlev, lyrics by Noize MC, and choreography by Ohad Mazor.

Produced by MART and Wild Yak, Seagull: True Story is playing at the Marylebone Theatre from 5 September to 11 October 2025.

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The Wanderers

Award-winning new play The Wanderers by Anna Ziegler (Photograph 51) is coming to Marylebone Theatre from 17 October to 29 November 2025.

Award-winning director Igor Golyak (Our Class), directs the UK premiere of Anna Ziegler’s acclaimed play, following an Off-Broadway run at the Laura Pels Theatre in 2023.

The creative team also includes design by Jan Pappelbaum of the Schaubühne theatre in Berlin.

In The Wanderers, two narratives intertwine in a story about longing, connection, and the invisible threads that bind us across generations.

Abe is a celebrated writer with a restless spirit and certain disdain for religion—including his own. He is married to Sophie, another writer, whose first book was overlooked. She doubts she has a second book in her— Abe has his doubts too. Their marriage, while rooted in love, is marked by tension, quiet rivalry, and unresolved discontent. Then an unexpected email from a movie star sets Abe on a flirtatious and increasingly risky journey. What starts as curiosity spirals into something deeper—an unravelling of long-buried truths – threatening his marriage, his sense of self, and the life he thought he built.

Meanwhile, in another time and place, Esther and Schmuli are shy young Orthodox Jews entering an arranged marriage after only one meeting. Gradually, Esther finds herself suffocated by the strictures of her ultra-religious world. A dissatisfaction that couldn’t have higher stakes when it starts to jeopardise her family and the foundation of the only life she’s ever known.

Anna Ziegler is currently adapting her play Photograph 51 for film, to be directed by Tom Hooper. In 2026, her new work Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) will premiere at The Public Theatre in New York.

Igor Golyak is a Ukrainian-born, award-winning director and founder of -Arlekin! and Zero Gravity (zero-G) Theater Lab.

Full casting and further creatives are to be announced.

The Wanderers is produced by Sarig Peker of Grapevine Shoot Productions & Keren Misgav of Norel Productions, and is playing at Marylebone Theatre from 17 October to 29 November 2025.

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Daniel’s Husband

Michael McKeever’s hit Off-Broadway play Daniel’s Husband will make its UK premiere from 4 December 2025 to 10 January 2026, directed by Alan Souza.

The play is an unflinching look at the nature of love and commitment. Daniel and Mitchell live a meticulously curated life; they have successful careers, a beautifully appointed home, devoted friends, and a profound love for one another. But an unexpected crisis jeopardises their boundlessly bright future, shaking the foundation of their relationship and testing the strength of their devotion.

Daniel’s Husband had its world premiere at Wilton Manors’ Island City Stage in 2015, and won three Carbonell Awards, including Best New Work. In 2017 the show was produced by the historic Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City, where it was nominated for an Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best New Work and returned in 2018 to New York City in a commercial production at the Westside Theatre Upstairs. It has since had various productions across the United States and around the world.

Directed by Alan Souza, the wider creative team includes set and costume design by Lee Newby, lighting design by Jamie Platt, sound design by Sarah Weltman, casting by Arthur Carrington, artwork by Steph Pyne Design, general management by James Steel Productions and production management by Charlie Rayner for Production Solutions Group.

Produced by Plastered Productions, Daniel’s Husband is playing from 4 December 2025 to 10 January 2026.

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What They Said

Director of Seagull: True Story, Alexander Molochnikov said: “I never thought I’d have the courage to stage a play about myself, but the war has changed life so drastically that in the past three years, I’ve been living and reliving a full-fledged drama. It is the most important thing I’ve ever had to do, a story of a world of creativity bursting before my eyes, of the impossibility of freely creating art and the necessity to fight for its freedom in both Russia and the US!”

Director of The Wanderers, Igor Golyak, said: “Theatre, at its essence, is a quiet conversation with the soul, unravelling the delicate threads between tradition and change. In The Wanderers, we see the poetic tragedy of longing—beautiful, endless, and profoundly human.”

Writer of The Wanderers, Anna Ziegler, said: “I couldn’t be more thrilled to bring these five characters—each restless, each full of yearning—to wander in London under Igor Golyak’s inventive, poetic, and emotionally rigorous eye. I can’t wait to see their world unfold on his watch.”

Director of Daniel’s Husband, Alan Souza, said “I always think the best plays allow a wealth of insight into the human condition, acting as powerful stimulants for personal reflection and evolution. At its core, Daniel’s Husband seems both a humanist parable as well as a persuasive polemic for marriage. It challenges audiences in essential ways, urging us to confront and re-evaluate our most personal ideas of what family means. Intricately layered and emotionally gripping, I look forward to bringing the play to London audiences.”

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